Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #610030 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-01
• Binding: Hardcover
• 528 pages

Synopsis
In 1885, Alfred Barnard was secretary of "Harper's Weekly Gazette", a journal that featured facets of the wine and spirit trade. In order to provide his readers with a history of the trade, he visited all the distilleries in Scotland, Ireland and England. This work covers Barnard's comments.

Customer Reviews

a look back in time
This book is a classic publication on whisky. Alfred Barnard visited all distilleries in Scotland, Ireland and England. It is a printing record of the distilleries in the year 1887. You can imagine the beautiful landscapes and the surroundings of his travel through the country. It is a report of his journey. He made a description of the distilleries and the equipment. If you read the text today, you don't want to know the details of the distilleries but you can enjoy the description of his travel and the problems he faced on his travel.
The book begins with an introduction on distilling. A map and an index of the distilleries head the three geographical (Scotland, Ireland and England) parts. There are beautiful printings of the distilleries and the surroundings of the estates included. You can enjoy the single chapter with a dram or you can read the text as a comparison to the real distilleries today.
This book is really for the collector and not for the beginner in whisky literature. It is a fortune to have this book in hands.

The best version of Barnard's book!
Every whisky enthusiastics has once heard of Barnard and its travel through the distillery in Scotland. The original edition 1880' eventually found (I saw one last year for £1200), but I found this edition and I can only highly recommend it: the quality of this fasimile is superb with detailed engravings and "golded" side pages for a suprisingly low price. Read it and travel back to the age of whisky and craftman ship. A must to have

The best-ever Barnard
The Rasch 2000 edition was creditable, but Barnard's 1887 masterpiece has never looked better than in this facsimile. If you have not yet got the book that should be the cornerstone of any whisky library, get it now. Best of all is the introduction by the opinionated proprietor of Loch Fyne Whiskies. It is a masterful piece of writing and - through an inspired piece of detective work - features a wonderful photograph of the great Alfred himself. If you can't decide which malt to buy a true whisky aficionado for Christmas, this will delight them.